Cooking Adventures!

Tonight, finally, My Pooky Bear and Qat Lady came over for a (COVID safe) visit. 

I absolutely love it when people come to see me.  If I'd gone to one of their homes tonight, yo, I would've left so early in the evening because I hate getting into a cold car and it would've been on my mind.  Not an issue when I don't have to drive home, right? 

We did Christmas (finally).  I am the proud owner of pretty plants and pretty pots.  Because these girls are my people.

For supper, we had Simple Mushroom Soup and Salt and Pepper Squid  Pooky Bear helped me with the mushrooms.  They both made me cut and clean the squid.  (What is the difference between squid and cuttlefish?  I'm pretty sure I had cuttlefish or a baby octopus.)  And then Qat Lady actually dealt with frying up the squid while I made a dipping sauce for us. 

Qat Lady tried Wood Ear mushrooms for the first time.  She did not like the looks of them at first, but got braver and braver as the night went on. "Oh yeah; they taste okay" (which means "they don't taste as funky as they look").  I was pleasantly surprised that my super texture eater friend Pooky was totally down on the mushroom soup.

My house is much cleaner when people come to see me, btw.  I spent some time today working on that, including vacuuming. But mostly, yo, I just got to hang out and visit.  With people.  It was lovely.